I'm fine, just really ticked off about losing my Internet access for a whole week! I am totally addicted to Internet and losing it is almost as bad as losing electric power in the home. My ISP infrastructure provider decided that my equipment was too old and I needed to upgrade. Instead of telling me about it, they simply cut me off! I use a 3rd party ISP that only buys bulk and re-sells its own packages, so they have no control over the big company. The little company called the big company and the big company said their line was fine... I needed new equipment. It took a week for the new equipment to arrive and I now have Internet again, but I need to wait for the specialist to come in tomorrow morning to tell me how to access the darn thing in order to set up my WiFi. I so wish we had other choices for Internet here. It's a monopoly and they treat customers like garbage.
That is enough to drive anyone bonkers. I think we all need to consider Internet access as essentially a human right these days.
I definitely think customer service has gone completely down the tubes, I'm sure it would have been extremely easy for the bigger company to send you a warning months ago.
We've only got one option here too... but competition is coming. I've signed up for Starlink which will hopefully start rolling out in my area towards the end of this year. This one should be available to anyone anywhere in the world.
Starlink is not cheap and outages are expected initially. Hardware costs seem pricey as well. Of course my area is not going to be covered for a while. Perhaps by then we can have a different system in place?
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It's not cheap... excluding the one-time price of the hardware, the monthly price will only be $10 more than what we're currently paying... for maybe x100 times the speed... but the outages are definitely a concern...
I'm fine, just really ticked off about losing my Internet access for a whole week! I am totally addicted to Internet and losing it is almost as bad as losing electric power in the home. My ISP infrastructure provider decided that my equipment was too old and I needed to upgrade. Instead of telling me about it, they simply cut me off! I use a 3rd party ISP that only buys bulk and re-sells its own packages, so they have no control over the big company. The little company called the big company and the big company said their line was fine... I needed new equipment. It took a week for the new equipment to arrive and I now have Internet again, but I need to wait for the specialist to come in tomorrow morning to tell me how to access the darn thing in order to set up my WiFi. I so wish we had other choices for Internet here. It's a monopoly and they treat customers like garbage.
That is enough to drive anyone bonkers. I think we all need to consider Internet access as essentially a human right these days.
I definitely think customer service has gone completely down the tubes, I'm sure it would have been extremely easy for the bigger company to send you a warning months ago.
We've only got one option here too... but competition is coming. I've signed up for Starlink which will hopefully start rolling out in my area towards the end of this year. This one should be available to anyone anywhere in the world.
Starlink is not cheap and outages are expected initially. Hardware costs seem pricey as well. Of course my area is not going to be covered for a while. Perhaps by then we can have a different system in place?
!ENGAGE 25
It's not cheap... excluding the one-time price of the hardware, the monthly price will only be $10 more than what we're currently paying... for maybe x100 times the speed... but the outages are definitely a concern...
You might want to look into something called Qortal.
Thanks! I'll give it a squiz
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